Looking for the original vs the remake [v4]

There is a lot of conflicting advice online and most of it is from 2019.

Spent the last few weekends digging into this and the deeper I go the more questions I have.

This came up at a meetup recently and the room was split, so curious what the broader community thinks. Posting this here because the relevant subreddit has gotten too noisy lately. Long-time lurker, first-time poster.